From f307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lorenzo Stoakes Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 01:20:20 +0100 Subject: mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags This removes the 'write' argument from access_process_vm() and replaces it with 'gup_flags' as use of this function previously silently implied FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag. We make this explicit as use of FOLL_FORCE can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c index f52b7db3..010b7b3 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request, break; copied = access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp, - sizeof(tmp), 0); + sizeof(tmp), FOLL_FORCE); if (copied != sizeof(tmp)) break; ret = put_user(tmp, (u32 __user *)data); @@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request, break; ret = 0; if (access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp, - sizeof(tmp), 1) == sizeof(tmp)) + sizeof(tmp), + FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE) == sizeof(tmp)) break; ret = -EIO; break; -- cgit v1.1